Published: July 1, 2010
|
This Month |
Last Month |
||
| 1 | THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.) | 2 | |
| 2 | FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate. | 3 | |
| 3 | THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $13.95.) The evolving business of football, viewed through the rise of the left tackle Michael Oher. | 1 | |
| 4* | THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $17.) The hubris of predictions — and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens. | 4 | |
| 5 | LIAR’S POKER, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $15.95.) Wall Street’s tumultuous 1980s, as witnessed by a young bond trader. | 6 | |
| 6 | PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) The hidden forces that shape our decisions. | 7 | |
| 7* | LORDS OF FINANCE, by Liaquat Ahamed. (Penguin, $18.) How four central bankers pushed the global economy into the Great Depression. | ||
| 8 | SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT, by Matthew B. Crawford. (Penguin, $15.) A philosopher on what manual labor can teach about the world and oneself. | 5 | |
| 9 | THE FIRST TYCOON, by T. J. Stiles. (Vintage, $19.95.) The biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt. | ||
| 10 | THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. (Anchor, $15.95.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook. | 8 | |